MICHAEL SNOW
JEFF SCHER
PETER ROSEJEFF
TAKAHIKO LIMURA
BARBARA HAMMER
MATTHIAS GROEBEL
SEYMOUR CHWAST
NISI JACOBS

Peter Rose
Biography

PETER ROSE is currently professor of film at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he directs the film and video program. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from the City University of New York n 1967 and subsequently studied film at the graduate level at San Francisco State University. Since 1965 he has been making film and videos engaged with issues of perception, language, time, and mythos. His works have led to the invention of new forms of cinematic structure, to improvisations in fictitious language, and to the pleasures of obscure journeys.

Rose’s film, tape, installation, and performance works have won numerous awards of distinction at festivals both in the U.S. and abroad, and have had extensive exhibition at most of the major media centers in this country. His work has been the subject of critical review in Art Forum, Afterimage, American Film, Cinematograph, Millennium Film Journal, the NY Times, The Village Voice, etc. He has had over sixty one-man exhibitions of his work, including show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and has presented performance works at the Polyphonix Festival in Paris, at the Flaherty Film Seminar in Wells, and at numerous other sites in the U.S. and abroad.

Rose is the recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including four from the National Endowment for the Arts, eleven from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and both Guggenheim and Pew Foundation Fellowships. His work has been broadcast over PBS affiliate stations in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles. Several major institutions have acquired the work including the Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Image Forum, Tokyo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Harvard University, and the Australian National Film Archive.

Rose has also been commissioned to produce performance work for New Music America; video installation for an electronic commemoration of Ben Franklin’s death; experimental documentaries on Jody Pinto, Stephen Berg, Martin Puryear, and Ed Levine for the Fairmount Park Art Association; and a permanent video installation for the Philadelphia International Airport. Both The Learning Channel and the Voom high definition network have purchased his films; he is handled as an independent artist on the home video circuit by Facets Video and by Re:Voir, and both Canadian Film Distribution Centre and The Kitchen carry compilations of his collected works.

2004 Philadelphia Museum of Art; Millenium Film, NYC; Images Festival, Toronto
2003 Roaratorio; European Media Art Festival; Cinematexas; Fabric Workshop Museum
2002 Polyphonix Festival, Paris; Le Fresnoy, Lille; ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe
2001 Rotterdam International Film Festival; Film Society of Lincoln Center; San Francisco Cinemateque; Black Maria Film and Video Festival
2000 Whitney Museum, “The American Century”; Delaware Art Museum Biennial; Oberhauseun Short Film Festival; European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
1999 Kulurzentrum bei den Minoriten; Graz, Austria; 7th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland; “Electromediascope”, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
1997 Transmediale Festival, Berlin; Impakt Festival, Germany, New York Short Film and Video, Philadelphia Museum of Art, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam

-Peter Rose